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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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